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Paul Brooks Davis
Paul Brooks Davis
Born	1938 (age 85–86); Centrahoma, Oklahoma, United States
Other names	Paul Davis
Education	Will Rogers High School
Alma mater	School of Visual Arts
Occupation	Graphic artist
Spouse	Elise Hepburn (married 1959-1964) Myrna Mushkin (married 1965-present)
Children	John Davis (1) Matthew Davis (2)

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Paul Brooks Davis (a.k.a. Paul Davis, born 1938) is an American graphic artist.

Biography

Paul Brooks Davis, better known as Paul Davis, was born in 1938 in Centrahoma, Oklahoma. The middle of three children born to Howard Davis, a Methodist minister, and Susan Brookhart Davis, he spent his childhood in small towns: Caddo, Jenks, Hartshorne and Antlers, in Oklahoma, as well as Sulphur Springs, Arkansas; Ellis, Kansas; and, briefly, Great Falls, Montana. He attended Woodrow Wilson Junior High School (Tulsa, Oklahoma), and later, Will Rogers High School in Tulsa, where his talent was nurtured by his art teachers–Mr. Higgins in 8th grade, Ms. Ownby in 9th, and Hortense Bateholts at Will Rogers. While in high school, Davis, with friends Russell Myers and Archie Goodwin formed a cartoonist's club that met daily at the Owl Drugstore at 11th Street and Pittsburg in Tulsa. Davis won a scholarship at the age of 17 to the School of Visual Arts, still called the Cartoonists and Illustrators School, on a scholarship from Scholastic Arts Magazine and moved to New York. “It wasn’t very well known, but I had read about it in a comic book,” Davis said.^[1] There, he studied with outstanding illustrators Philip Hays and Robert Weaver, and graphic designer and artist George Tscherny.

While in New York he had his first marriage in 1959 to aspiring actress-singer Elise Hepburn, which produced his son John. The divorced in 1964. He also married, former Push Pin colleague Myrna Mushkin, in 1965, and their son Matthew was born in 1967.

Career

While still a student, Davis produced his first commissioned illustration, a pencil drawing that appeared in the October 1959 issue of Playboy magazine. After finishing his courses at School of Visual Arts, he was hired by Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast, partners in the groundbreaking Push Pin Studios. A series of his target paintings was the subject of issue 32 (1961) of the studio's publication, The Push Pin Graphic.^[2] He then illustrated "A Bestiary" of famous people, conceived and written by artist Edward Sorel, which appeared in the July 1962 issue of Horizon magazine.

Davis's work quickly caught the imagination of art directors in the U.S. and abroad, and he was soon in demand as an illustrator for magazines, record album covers, book jackets, and advertising. He formed the Paul Davis Studio in 1963, working first in New York and later in Sag Harbor on Long Island. His style had a tremendous impact on the field of illustration. His illustrations have appeared in Life, Time, Playboy, Look, The Saturday Evening Post, Sports Illustrated, Evergreen Review, Harper's, Harper's Bazaar, Horizon, McCall's, Show, Esquire, The New Republic, New York, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Mirabella, Fast Company, Worth, Money and many other publications.

He was Art Director of Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival from 1984 to 1992. Other clients include UNITE!, Disney, Lincoln Center, McKinsey & Co., Rolling Stone, Yahoo, Adobe and A&E Television.

In 1968, Davis was invited by Galerie Delpire in Paris, France, to have his first solo exhibition of paintings, and in 1977, Gilles deBure, curator of the Galerie d'Actualité in the Centre Georges Pompidou, presented a solo exhibition of Davis's work as part of the museum's opening festivities. Davis's distinctive paintings and posters for advertising, publishing and entertainment also have been the subject of museum and gallery exhibitions throughout Japan and Italy, and in cities around the U.S., including a retrospective in 1988 at the Philbrook Museum of Art in his native Tulsa, where then Governor Frank Keating declared the opening date of his exhibition the “Paul Davis Day.”

Davis's work is included in collections throughout the world, and poster collection of MoMa in New York. In 1987, The Drama Desk created a special award^[3] to recognize Davis's iconic posters for Joseph Papp's Public Theater, and he is in the Hall of Fame of both the Art Directors Club and the Society of Illustrators. He is also a recipient of the coveted AIGA Medal, and of honorary doctorates from School of Visual Arts and the Maryland Institute College of Art. He is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome and a vice-president of their Society of Fellows.

Awards

1988 Gold Medal from the Society of Illustrators
Silver and Gold medal from the Art Directors Club of New York
Silver Medal from Primera Bienal de Artes Graficas in Columbia
Bronze medal from the VIII Poster Biennale in Warsaw
Special Drama Desk Award for his outstanding theater posters
Honorary doctorates from School of Visual Arts and the Maryland Institute College of Art.
Fellow of the American Academy in Rome.
2009 Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame^[4]
2012 Will Rogers High School Hall of Fame^[5]

Artwork appearing in film, television and music

Davis's artwork has appeared in many movies and TV shows. When Richard Dreyfuss and Marsha Mason share an apartment in The Goodbye Girl, it is decorated with Davis's poster for the New York Shakespeare Festival production of Henry V. Davis's poster of Che Guevara appears both in Brian De Palma's Hi, Mom! and Rob Cohen's A Small Circle of Friends.

In the 1993 film adaptation of John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation, Davis's mural for New York City's Arcadia restaurant is featured. Paul's iconic poster for the Public Theater production of Three Penny Opera is on the wall of Jonathan Eliot's apartment in the NBC sitcom The Single Guy. In the 2009 film Precious, Paul's poster for the 1975 production of Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls adorns the teacher's apartment.

In a classroom scene in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), Davis' poster for The Cherry Orchard hangs on the wall. Davis created album artwork for two Chiaroscuro Records releases: Gene Krupa's Jazz at the New School and Summit Reunion's Yellow Dog Blues.

References

^ "Paul Davis". Society of Illustrators. Retrieved 2024-08-21.
^ "The Push Pin Legacy" (PDF). Poster House. 2021. p. 11. Retrieved March 23, 2024.
^ "History | 1986-1987 33rd Drama Desk Awards". Drama Desk. Archived from the original on 2008-07-04. Retrieved March 23, 2024.
^ "Paul Davis". Society of Illustrators. Retrieved 2024-08-21.
^ "Paul Davis '55 – WRHS Community Foundation". Paul Davis ’55 – WRHS Community Foundation. Retrieved 2024-08-21.

External links

http://www.pauldavisstudio.com
Paul Davis Turns Poster Painting into a High and Popular Art
http://www.adcglobal.org/archive/hof/1995/?id=328
http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/medalist-pauldavis
"Exhibition Overview | Masters Series: Paul Davis", Guest Artist Exhibitions, School of Visual Arts, October 5–30, 1998.
Push Pin Graphic
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3065/is_2_33/ai_112683535/

[1] "Paul Davis". Society of Illustrators. Retrieved 2024-08-21.

[2] "The Push Pin Legacy" (PDF). Poster House. 2021. p. 11. Retrieved March 23, 2024.

[3] "History | 1986-1987 33rd Drama Desk Awards". Drama Desk. Archived from the original on 2008-07-04. Retrieved March 23, 2024.

[4] "Paul Davis". Society of Illustrators. Retrieved 2024-08-21.

[5] "Paul Davis '55 – WRHS Community Foundation". Paul Davis ’55 – WRHS Community Foundation. Retrieved 2024-08-21.

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+'''Paul Brooks Davis''' (a.k.a. '''Paul Davis''', born 1938) is an American graphic artist.
 ==Biography==
-'''Paul Davis''' was born in 1938 in [[Centrahoma, Oklahoma]]. The middle of three children born to Howard Davis, a Methodist minister, and Susan Brookhart Davis, he spent his childhood in small towns: Caddo, Jenks, Hartshorne and Antlers, in Oklahoma, as well as Sulphur Springs, Arkansa; Ellis, Kansas; and, briefly, Great Falls, Montana. He attended Woodrow Wilson Junior High School (Tulsa, Oklahoma), and later, [[Will Rogers High School]] in [[Tulsa, Oklahoma|Tulsa]], where his talent  was nurtured by art teacher Hortense Bateholts.  While in high school, Davis, with friends [[Russell Myers]] and [[Archie Goodwin (comics)|Archie Goodwin]] formed a cartoonist's club which met daily at the Owl Drugstore at 11th Street and Pittsburg in Tulsa.  Davis won a scholarship to the [[School of Visual Arts]] and moved to New York at age 17. There he studied with outstanding illustrators Philip Hays and [[Robert Weaver (illustrator)|Robert Weaver]], and graphic designer and artist George Tscherny.
+Paul Brooks Davis, better known as Paul Davis, was born in 1938 in [[Centrahoma, Oklahoma|Centrahoma]], [[Oklahoma]]. The middle of three children born to Howard Davis, a Methodist minister, and Susan Brookhart Davis, he spent his childhood in small towns: Caddo, Jenks, Hartshorne and Antlers, in Oklahoma, as well as Sulphur Springs, Arkansas; Ellis, Kansas; and, briefly, Great Falls, Montana. He attended Woodrow Wilson Junior High School ([[Tulsa, Oklahoma|Tulsa]], Oklahoma), and later, [[Will Rogers High School]] in Tulsa, where his talent was nurtured by his art teachers–Mr. Higgins in 8th grade, Ms. Ownby in 9th, and Hortense Bateholts at Will Rogers. While in high school, Davis, with friends [[Russell Myers]] and [[Archie Goodwin (comics)|Archie Goodwin]] formed a cartoonist's club that met daily at the Owl Drugstore at 11th Street and Pittsburg in Tulsa. Davis won a scholarship at the age of 17 to the [[School of Visual Arts]], still called the Cartoonists and Illustrators School, on a scholarship from Scholastic Arts Magazine and moved to New York. “It wasn’t very well known, but I had read about it in a comic book,” Davis said.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Paul Davis |url=https://societyillustrators.org/award-winners/paul-davis/ |access-date=2024-08-21 |website=Society of Illustrators |language=en-US}}</ref> There, he studied with outstanding illustrators [[Philip Hays]] and [[Robert Weaver (illustrator)|Robert Weaver]], and graphic designer and artist [[George Tscherny]].
+While in New York he had his first marriage in 1959 to aspiring actress-singer Elise Hepburn, which produced his son John. The divorced in 1964. He also married, former Push Pin colleague Myrna Mushkin, in 1965, and their son Matthew was born in 1967.
 ==Career==
-While still a student, he produced his first commissioned illustration, a pencil drawing which appeared in the October 1959 issue of [[Playboy]] Magazine. After finishing his courses at [[School of Visual Arts]], he was hired by [[Milton Glaser]] and [[Seymour Chwast]], partners in the groundbreaking [[Push Pin Studios]].  A series of his target paintings was the subject of issue 32 (1961) of the studio’s publication, The Push Pin Graphic.  He then illustrated “A Bestiary” of famous people, conceived and written by artist [[Edward Sorel]] which appeared in the July 1962 issue of [[Horizon (magazine)|Horizon Magazine]].
+While still a student, Davis produced his first commissioned illustration, a pencil drawing that appeared in the October 1959 issue of ''[[Playboy]]'' magazine. After finishing his courses at [[School of Visual Arts]], he was hired by [[Milton Glaser]] and [[Seymour Chwast]], partners in the groundbreaking [[Push Pin Studios]].  A series of his target paintings was the subject of issue 32 (1961) of the studio's publication, ''The Push Pin Graphic''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://posterhouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/PH_Exh_PushPin_FinalPDF.pdf|title=The Push Pin Legacy|publisher=[[Poster House]]|page=11|date=2021|access-date=March 23, 2024}}</ref> He then illustrated "A Bestiary" of famous people, conceived and written by artist [[Edward Sorel]], which appeared in the July 1962 issue of ''[[Horizon (British magazine)|Horizon]]'' magazine.
-Davis’s work quickly caught the imagination of art directors in the U.S. and abroad, and he was soon in demand as an illustrator for magazines, record album covers, book jackets, and advertising. He formed the Paul Davis Studio in 1963, working first in New York and later in [[Sag Harbor, New York|Sag Harbor]] on Long Island. His style had a tremendous impact on the field of illustration.  His illustrations have appeared in [[Life (magazine)|Life]], [[Time (magazine)|Time]], [[Playboy]], [[Look (American magazine)|Look]], [[The Saturday Evening Post]], [[Sports Illustrated]], [[Evergreen Review]], [[Harper's Magazine|Harper's]], [[Harper's Bazaar]], [[Horizon (magazine)|Horizon]], [[McCall's]], [[Show (magazine)|Show]], [[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]], [[The New Republic]], [[New York (magazine)|New York]], [[The New York Times]], [[The New Yorker]], [[Mirabella]], [[Fast Company (magazine)|Fast Company]], [[Worth (magazine)|Worth]], [[Money (magazine)|Money]] and many other publications.
+Davis's work quickly caught the imagination of art directors in the U.S. and abroad, and he was soon in demand as an illustrator for magazines, record album covers, book jackets, and advertising. He formed the Paul Davis Studio in 1963, working first in New York and later in [[Sag Harbor, New York|Sag Harbor]] on Long Island. His style had a tremendous impact on the field of illustration.  His illustrations have appeared in ''[[Life (magazine)|Life]]'',  ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'', ''[[Playboy]]'', ''[[Look (American magazine)|Look]]'', ''[[The Saturday Evening Post]]'', ''[[Sports Illustrated]]'', ''[[Evergreen Review]]'', ''[[Harper's Magazine|Harper's]]'', ''[[Harper's Bazaar]]'', ''[[Horizon (British magazine)|Horizon]]'', ''[[McCall's]]'', ''[[Show (magazine)|Show]]'', ''[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]'', ''[[The New Republic]]'', ''[[New York (magazine)|New York]]'', ''[[The New York Times]]'', ''[[The New Yorker]]'', ''[[Mirabella]]'', ''[[Fast Company (magazine)|Fast Company]]'', ''[[Worth (magazine)|Worth]]'', ''[[Money (magazine)|Money]]'' and many other publications.
-He was [[Art_director#In_publishing|Art Director]] of [[Joseph Papp]]'s [[New York Shakespeare Festival]] from 1984 to 1992.  Other clients include UNITE!, Disney, Lincoln Center, McKinsey & Co. Rolling Stone, Yahoo, Adobe and A&E Television.
+He was [[Art director#In publishing|Art Director]] of [[Joseph Papp]]'s [[New York Shakespeare Festival]] from 1984 to 1992. Other clients include [[UNITE!]], [[Disney]], [[Lincoln Center]], [[McKinsey & Co.]], ''[[Rolling Stone]]'', [[Yahoo]], [[Adobe]] and [[A&E Television]].
-In 1968 he was invited by Galerie Delpire in Paris to have his first solo exhibition of [[painting|paintings]], and in 1977, Gilles deBure, curator of the Galerie d’Actualité in the [[Centre Georges Pompidou]], presented a solo exhibition of Davis’s work as part of the museum’s opening festivities.  Davis’s distinctive paintings and posters for advertising, publishing and entertainment also have been the subject of museum and gallery exhibitions throughout Japan and Italy, and in cities around the U.S., including a retrospective at the [[Philbrook Museum of Art]] in his native [[Tulsa, Oklahoma|Tulsa]].
+In 1968, Davis was invited by Galerie Delpire in [[Paris]], France, to have his first solo exhibition of [[painting]]s, and in 1977, Gilles deBure, curator of the Galerie d'Actualité in the [[Centre Georges Pompidou]], presented a solo exhibition of Davis's work as part of the museum's opening festivities.  Davis's distinctive paintings and posters for advertising, publishing and entertainment also have been the subject of museum and gallery exhibitions throughout Japan and Italy, and in cities around the U.S., including a retrospective in 1988 at the [[Philbrook Museum of Art]] in his native Tulsa, where then [[Frank Keating|Governor Frank Keating]] declared the opening date of his exhibition the “Paul Davis Day.”
-Davis’s work is included in collections throughout the world, and  poster collection of [[Museum of Modern Art|MoMa]] in New York. In 1987, The [[Drama Desk Award|Drama Desk]] created a special award to recognize Davis’s iconic posters for [[Joseph Papp]]’s [[The Public Theater|Public Theater]], and he is in the Hall of Fame of both the [[Art_Directors_Club#1995|Art Directors Club]] and the [[Society of Illustrators]]. He is a also a recipient of the coveted [[List of AIGA medalists|AIGA Medal]], and of honorary doctorates from [[School of Visual Arts]] and the [[Maryland Institute College of Art]]. He is a Fellow of the [[American Academy in Rome]] and a vice-president of their Society of Fellows.
+Davis's work is included in collections throughout the world, and poster collection of [[Museum of Modern Art|MoMa]] in New York. In 1987, The [[Drama Desk Award|Drama Desk]] created a special award<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dramadesk.com/1986_1987dd.html|title=History {{!}} 1986-1987 33rd Drama Desk Awards|publisher=Drama Desk|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080704125825/http://www.dramadesk.com/1986_1987dd.html |access-date=March 23, 2024|archive-date=2008-07-04 }}</ref> to recognize Davis's iconic posters for [[Joseph Papp]]'s [[The Public Theater|Public Theater]], and he is in the Hall of Fame of both the [[Art Directors Club#1995|Art Directors Club]] and the [[Society of Illustrators]]. He is also a recipient of the coveted [[List of AIGA medalists|AIGA Medal]], and of honorary doctorates from [[School of Visual Arts]] and the [[Maryland Institute College of Art]]. He is a Fellow of the [[American Academy in Rome]] and a vice-president of their Society of Fellows.
+== Awards ==
+* 1988 Gold Medal from the Society of Illustrators
+* Silver and Gold medal from the Art Directors Club of New York
+* Silver Medal from Primera Bienal de Artes Graficas in Columbia
+* Bronze medal from the VIII Poster Biennale in Warsaw
+* Special Drama Desk Award for his outstanding theater posters
+* Honorary doctorates from School of Visual Arts and the Maryland Institute College of Art.
+* Fellow of the American Academy in Rome.
+* 2009 Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame<ref>{{Cite web |title=Paul Davis |url=https://societyillustrators.org/award-winners/paul-davis/ |access-date=2024-08-21 |website=Society of Illustrators |language=en-US}}</ref>
+* 2012 Will Rogers High School Hall of Fame<ref>{{Cite web |title=Paul Davis ’55 – WRHS Community Foundation |url=https://willrogersfoundation.net/paul-davis-55/ |access-date=2024-08-21 |website=Paul Davis ’55 – WRHS Community Foundation |language=en-US}}</ref>
+==Artwork appearing in film, television and music==
+Davis's artwork has appeared in many movies and TV shows. When [[Richard Dreyfuss]] and [[Marsha Mason]] share an apartment in ''[[The Goodbye Girl]]'', it is decorated with Davis's poster for the [[New York Shakespeare Festival]] production of ''[[Henry V (play)|Henry V]]''.  Davis's poster of [[Che Guevara]] appears both in [[Brian De Palma]]'s ''[[Hi, Mom!]]'' and [[Rob Cohen]]'s ''[[A Small Circle of Friends]]''.
+In the 1993 film adaptation of [[John Guare]]'s ''[[Six Degrees of Separation (film)|Six Degrees of Separation]]'', Davis's mural for New York City's Arcadia restaurant is featured.  Paul's iconic poster for the [[Public Theater]] production of ''[[Three Penny Opera]]'' is on the wall of Jonathan Eliot's apartment in the NBC sitcom ''[[The Single Guy]]''.  In the 2009 film ''[[Precious (film)|Precious]]'', Paul's poster for the 1975 production of [[Ntozake Shange]]'s ''[[For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf|For Colored Girls]]'' adorns the teacher's apartment.
+In a classroom scene in ''[[A Nightmare on Elm Street]]'' (1984), Davis' poster for [[The Cherry Orchard]] hangs on the wall. Davis created album artwork for two [[Chiaroscuro Records]] releases: [[Gene Krupa]]'s ''Jazz at the New School'' and Summit Reunion's ''Yellow Dog Blues''.
 ==References==
-{{reflist}}
+{{Reflist}}
 ==External links==
 * http://www.pauldavisstudio.com
-*http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20070239,00.html
+*[http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20070239,00.html Paul Davis Turns Poster Painting into a High and Popular Art]
 *http://www.adcglobal.org/archive/hof/1995/?id=328
 *http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/medalist-pauldavis
-*http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/sa/index.jsp?sid0=201&page_id=482&event_id=40
+*[https://web.archive.org/web/20100528020329/http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/sa/index.jsp?sid0=201&page_id=482&event_id=40 "Exhibition Overview | Masters Series: Paul Davis"], Guest Artist Exhibitions, School of Visual Arts, October 5–30, 1998.
-*http://www.dramadesk.com/1986_1987dd.html
+*[http://pushpininc.com/pushpingraphic.html ''Push Pin Graphic'']
+*http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3065/is_2_33/ai_112683535/
-*http://pushpininc.com/pushpingraphic.html
+{{Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame}}
+{{Authority control}}
+{{DEFAULTSORT:Davis, Paul Brooks}}
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-[[Category:AIGA Medalists]]
+[[Category:AIGA medalists]]
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-[[Category:People from Tulsa, Oklahoma]]
+[[Category:Artists from Tulsa, Oklahoma]]
-[[Category:Rome Prize winners]]
 [[Category:School of Visual Arts alumni]]
+[[Category:People from Sag Harbor, New York]]
+[[Category:Will Rogers High School alumni]]

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